Wednesday, August 12, 2009

CRTC Must Die

Would somebody please kill off the waste of tax dollars known as the CRTC, and get us out of this misery? In its most outrageous decision yet the CRTC has approved Bell's application for Usage Based Billing of the customers of the independent ISPs.

This forces all ISPs to have a 60GB cap with a $1/GB overage charge. My TekSavvy account has a 200GB cap and charges $0.25/G above that. So the CRTC has allowed Bell to dictate business decisions to an independent ISP like TekSavvy. Remember that those ISPs already pay Bell to carry their customers data, so Bell is double dipping. The UBB comes into effect in three months time.

The only good news is that the CRTC did not ban MLPPP as Bell requested in its application. This means that it is still possible to bypass throttling for now, but how long before Bell makes another application to correct this oversight?

The CRTC has completely screwed up once again. I can only wonder how much worse it can get. The only recourse now is the government or the courts.

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